Questions tagged [nietzsche]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and poet. Nietzsche is consistently one of the most widely-read philosophers, even among laymen; yet his work is often elliptical, even cryptic, and demands an unusual discipline with respect to reading and thinking. This contradiction may give some sense of the complexity and profundity of Nietzsche's powerful writing and explosive style. Much of his work can be understood as critique of nihilism.
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Did Nietzsche cite anywhere in his writings Plato's Gorgias regarding Callicles?
Nietzsche's theory has many similarities with Callicles thought in Plato's Gorgias (Nietzsche and Callicles on Happiness, Pleasure, and Power). However, he did not explicitely mention Callicles in his ...
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Nietzsche and classical liberalism
Nietzsche was a right-leaning anarchist, a "rebel aristocrat" (Domenico Losurdo).
He was vividly against democracy, socialism, and equality.
He criticized John Stuart Mill, rejecting his ...
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What is the difference between Nietzsche view on suffering and the Epicurean view on suffering?
Nietzsche on suffering
Here is a quote of Nietzsche, from Russell (History of Western Philosophy, Chapter 25 "Nietzsche"):
Nietzsche's ethic is not one of self-indulgence in any ordinary ...
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How do you understand Nietzsche in the aphorism 33 from "The Gay Science" : Book 'Joke, Cunning, and Revenge'?
I have a hard time understanding what Nietzsche wanted to express in this aphorism :
The Solitary One
Despised by me are following and leading.
Commanding? Even worse to me than heeding!
Who does ...
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A quote from Lotze's Methaphysik. Is he putting forth the same idea of Nietzsche's Ubermensch?
Lotze in his book Metaphysik, article 245, writes on immortality as follows
We have no other principle for deciding it than this general idealistic belief : that every created thing will continue ...
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What do the "last men" mean by <<We invented happiness>>?
In his book Thus spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche talks about the worst kind of man, "the last man" who is the direct opposite of the ubermensch. Somewhere the last men use the phrase "We ...
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Nietzsche's model of sociality in the ubermensch
As I understand it, Fredrich Nietzsche-- at least in the latest works he had scribed before his death-- was neither an advocate of antisocial nor prosocial passions. How he professes this position is ...
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One is punished most for ones virtue - Nietszche?
What does Nietzsche mean by this in his polemic novella BGE?
To me, I interpret it as:
The higher the virtues one aims at, the greater these virtues act as a judge on one's behavior, resulting in both ...
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Nietzsche doesn't believe in free will nor in "non-free will". How come?
In Beyond Good and Evil, section 21, Nietzsche writes (this is not the whole section)
The desire for “freedom of will” in the superlative, metaphysical sense, such as still holds sway, unfortunately, ...
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What is Anti-humanism?
I tried to do my own research on it but I'm not very much cleared about it. Please explain it to me in simple language. this term is being used by Post-structuralism and postmodernists.
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Help with Nietzsche quote source
I recall reading that Nietzsche thought that Democritus was the first Greek to eliminate any trace of superstition from his thinking.
I cannot find a source for this though, and would appreciate some ...
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What is Nietzsche saying about pain? [closed]
I am not thinking of any passage of Nietzsche's in particular. However, it's well known he valued pain for what it brings about in some people. But then I'm told he didn't valorise it, which I suppose ...
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What was Nietzsche all implying-and-not-implying by what would make him "holy"?
In the first section of "Why I Am A Fatality", in Ecce Homo (sometimes translated as "Why I Am A Destiny",) Nietzsche expresses a fear, if not also in the subtext a demand, of ...
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Why didn't Nietzsche's work take off in his time? [closed]
Was it becaue he just didn't breakout as a writer or was it because of the dominance of certain philosophical narratives that made his philosophy unacceptable ?
he did attack everything ever
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Nietzsche on balancing service to the creation of (or becoming) the Overman and living a life of ones own choosing?
So, I have been looking into Nietzsche.
To be honest, I have thought a lot about Nietzsche for the past 2 years, and I am unsure of what to make of the nature of this need to become the Overman. My ...
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